Rick Potts and Vetza will both lead workshops on the weekend of the Lowest Form of Music festival in London October 22-24, 2010. Rick will lead a workshop on home-made instrument making and Vetza's will focus on vocal improvisation. Each workshop is limited to only 15 participants so if you want to attend, please register early! For registration information and full details about each workshop, please go to http://www.no-fi.org.uk/events.

In anticipation of the new Smegma CD/LP "Mirage" on Important Records, listen to an exlusive unreleased live track from pioneering old school primitive/avante garde jammers Smegma. Recorded 7/15/10 in The Steve Allen theater at The Center For Inquiry in Hollywood. With Oblivia, Ju Suk Reet Meate, Dennis Duck, Donkey Flybye (chuck-o-Fats), Ace Farren Ford, and Rogue Iniki.

The Wire magazine, media partners with the LAFMS on The Lowest Form of Music festival, has published exclusive content for readers of the magazine, accessible at their website.

Track selection was curated by Fredrik Nilsen with input from all the LAFMS. All tracks are from The Lowest Form of Music box set (1996) or Blorp Essette 4 x CD set (1999). Blorp Essette is to be reissued by Transparency in 2011, The Lowest Form of Music box set is to be released digitally on Diogenes.com in 2010 or 2011.

Look for exclusive historical photos from Fredrik Nilsen's archives to be published at The Wire soon.

Also, for a short period of time you can download the 90 minute radio show hosted by The Wire staffers Derek Walmsley and Edwin Pouncey, aka Savage Pencil. To access the download, or to stream it, go here. Listen to Rick Potts being interviewed and tracks from the BDR Ensemble, Rick Potts, Joe Potts, Dennis Duck, Slimy Adenoid And The Pablums and more.

"The Wire's new issue includes a feature on the L.A.F.M.S. -- a group of groups and artists who tend to be ignored for all their ambition and their too-early recording and releasing of records for the usual wrongo history-of temporal narratives. If they’d been in NYC it would’ve been as if some kind of Beefheartian no-wave predated punk; and if they’d been in London it would’ve been as if Pub rock had been made up instead of bands like The Desperate Bicycles or Etron fou Le Loublan. This article and the show at Beaconsfield won’t dent history’s chrome-dome though."

On the Thursday September 23, 2010 edition of Adventures In Modern Music, Derek Walmsley and Edwin Pouncey unlock the LAFMS. They'll be playing selections of LAFMS music, discussing their connection to LA freak scene of generations past, and their impact on noise culture of the present day, as well as a possible special phone-in guest. Plus all the usual selections of new music and dispatches from the outer limits of modern music.